Rik Janssen


Rik Arend Janssen is a Dutch politician and former businessman. As a member of the Socialist Party he was a temporary MP from 11 January till 14 April 2011, replacing Sadet Karabulut, who was on maternity leave. He focused on matters of security, judiciary, immigration and political asylum. Since 27 April 2011 he has been a member of the States Deputed of the province of South Holland.
Janssen owned a horeca enterprise in Scheveningen. Because of an accident he got disabled and he had to abandon his business. To rehabilitate he studied law at the Open University in the Netherlands and obtained his LLM with Latin honors.